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News Articles: Politics

The TikTok Inc. building is seen in Culver City, Calif., on March 17, 2023.

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  • Technology

House GOP moves ahead with TikTok vote as Trump voices opposition to possible ban

House Republicans move ahead with a bill that would require Chinese company ByteDance to sell TikTok or face a ban in the U.S. even as former President Donald Trump voices opposition to the effort.

March 11, 2024
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  • GPB Newsroom
An anti-trafficking advocate accused Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala, of distorting her story in the GOP response to President Biden's State of the Union address.

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  • Politics

Anti-sex trafficking advocate accuses GOP Sen. Katie Britt of distorting her story

The woman who appears central to an anecdote told by GOP Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala., in the GOP response to the State of the Union called the use of her story "distorted for political purposes.

March 11, 2024
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By:
  • Ximena Bustillo
Arizona Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs speaks to the state Legislature as she delivers the State of the State address in Phoenix, Jan. 8, 2024.

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  • Politics

Arizona's Democratic governor fights border package backed by state Republicans

Both Republicans and Democrats in Arizona criticize the federal government's border policies but disagree on the state's role in addressing the problem.

March 11, 2024
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By:
  • Wayne Schutsky
Marcia Fudge, the U.S. secretary of Housing and Urban Development, testifies before the House Committee on Financial Services in January.

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  • Politics

U.S. Housing Secretary Marcia Fudge will step down this month

Fudge, 71, is one of the few cabinet members to leave the Biden administration so far, and will return home to Ohio. She says affordable housing is a bipartisan challenge that needs more funding.

March 11, 2024
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By:
  • Jennifer Ludden
Shalanda Young, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, told NPR that the president's budget puts Congress on notice.

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  • Politics

Biden unveils a budget that would cut costs for families and hike taxes for the rich

President Biden's $7.3 trillion budget wish-list puts dollar figures to his pledges in the State of the Union address. But actual spending plans are up to Congress.

March 11, 2024
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman and
  • Franco Ordoñez
In this file photo, President Biden poses for a photo with the Students Demand Action group after speaking at the National Safer Communities Summit at the University of Hartford in West Hartford, Conn., June 16, 2023. Young voters could be key to Biden's reelection prospects as he campaigns for a second term.

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  • Elections

Young voters helped elect Biden in 2020. His campaign is courting them again in 2024

Students for Biden Harris is focused on building a large volunteer base of young supporters through student-led groups. Recruiting young voters could be key to President Biden's reelection hopes.

March 11, 2024
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  • Elena Moore
In this combination of photos, President Joe Biden, left, speaks on Aug. 10, 2023, in Salt Lake City, and former President Donald Trump speaks on June 13, 2023, in Bedminster, N.J.

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  • Politics

Georgia and Michigan could be key to keeping Black voter turnout up in 2024

In the 2022 midterm elections, Black voter turnout dropped dramatically. Ahead of the presidential election in 2024, organizers warn it could happen again and political parties should pay attention.

March 11, 2024
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  • Sam Gringlas
Biden in Atlanta

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  • Politics

Biden, Trump make their cases to Georgia voters ahead of the presidential primary

President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump held dueling rallies in Georgia on Saturday to make their final pitches to voters ahead of Tuesday’s presidential preference primary.

March 11, 2024
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  • Sarah Kallis
The memorial at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., on Feb. 14, 2023. Five years earlier, 14 students and 3 staff members were killed in a mass shooting at the school.

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  • Politics

Harris plans to visit the Parkland school where 14 kids were killed in 2018

Vice President Harris will walk through Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., on March 23 with the families of the victims who were killed there in a mass shooting.

March 11, 2024
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By:
  • Deepa Shivaram
Alabama Sen. Katie Britt speaks at a press conference at the U.S. Capitol on December 7, 2023. Britt delivered the Republican response to President Biden's State of the Union address on Thursday.

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  • Politics

'Saturday Night Live' lampoons GOP Sen. Katie Britt's State of the Union response

Scarlett Johansson made a surprise appearance on the NBC sketch comedy show to poke fun at the Republican rebuttal to President Biden's State of the Union address.

March 10, 2024
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  • Joe Hernandez
Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala.,, speaks during a news conference on the border, Feb. 15, 2023, on Capitol Hill. Britt gave the Republican response to President Joe Biden's State of the Union address this past Thursday.

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  • Politics

Katie Britt used a decades-old example of rapes in Mexico in GOP response to Biden

In the Republican response to the State of the Union, Britt used a harrowing account of sexual abuse to attack Biden's border policies, but the rapes happened in Mexico before Biden became president.

March 10, 2024
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  • GPB Newsroom
Reverend Kenneth James Flowers, 62, Senior Pastor of Greater New Mt. Moriah Missionary Baptist Church, poses for a portrait after service on Sun., Feb. 25, 2024 in Detroit, Michigan.

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  • Politics

A Biden victory in Michigan could depend on Black Voters

Michigan faith leader Rev. Kenneth Flowers says President Biden should not take the Black vote for granted.

March 10, 2024
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By:
  • Reena Advani and
  • Leila Fadel
President Joe Biden speaks at a campaign rally Saturday, March 9, 2024, at Pullman Yards in Atlanta.

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  • Middle East

Biden: Netanyahu 'hurting Israel' by not preventing more civilian deaths in Gaza

President Joe Biden said Saturday that he believes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is "hurting Israel more than helping Israel" in how he is approaching its war against Hamas in Gaza.

March 10, 2024
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  • GPB Newsroom
In this combination of photos, President Joe Biden, left, speaks on Aug. 10, 2023, in Salt Lake City, and former President Donald Trump speaks on June 13, 2023, in Bedminster, N.J. The 2024 general election campaign will pick up Saturday, March 9, where the 2020 contest left off.

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  • Politics

Biden and Trump trade barbs at rival rallies in Georgia

President Joe Biden and ex-President Donald Trump warned of dire consequences for the country if the other wins another term in the White House as the pair held dueling rallies in Georgia on Saturday.

March 10, 2024
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  • GPB Newsroom
Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala., speaks during a news conference on the border on Feb. 15, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Britt delivered the Republican response to President Biden's State of the Union address on Thursday.

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  • National

Immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than U.S.-born Americans, studies find

In Thursday night's State of The Union, the murder of 22-year-old Laken Riley took center stage. The suspect is a migrant. Republicans say immigration leads to crime, but there's no evidence of that.

March 09, 2024
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  • Jasmine Garsd
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